London Calling

and any pushback is met with not-too-thinly-veiled threats that he'll go elsewhere and make sure it's well known who wasn't "cooperative."

And so does this play on some sort of fear within your good self sir? Imagine for just one moment that you had no fear, I mean why should you? God is in control and looking after you, plus you've just been made Senior Cert. And then imagine that perhaps if anyone was to have fear, it is him rather than you. Then, if you can really place yourself in this state of mind, don't you have control of this person and the situation?

It's easy for me to say stuff like that from far away when I don't have to work with the fella. But in my experience of dealing with such folks, it's all about ones attitude.

You are impervious, you are one of the best teachers and explainers there are in the company, so act accordingly, and smile a lot :-)

Soundbites - yep that's the modern world I am afraid, all diminishing attention spans and Hollywood. It's ok though, we'll be augumented with computers before too long and time will change as our thoughts move at near lightspeed compared to the chemical speeds of today. I am reminded of the movie Star Trek 8: First Contact, at the end when Data says to Captain Picard about the offer The Borg Queen made to him, he muses that he was tempted by her offer for a time. "How long?" says Picard, "0.68 seconds, sir. For an android, that is nearly an eternity".

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The Pretenders, great band, nice track, I prefer their earlier stuff though. Chrissie certainly was original and has been copied many times since. She's a good example of one of the many americans who came to London because that was where the cultural scene was at. Is that still true? Not sure.